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Ramadan road trip, day 2: 'Faith people have to stick together'CNN's Wayne Drash filed this report: The blue Chevy Cobalt pulled away from Atlanta, heading into toward the Muslim community of Jacksonville, Florida. Driver Aman Ali jams to "Eye of the Tiger," his thumbs beating to the rhythm and his voice belting out along with Survivor's lead singer. His friend, Bassam Tariq, studiously reads fan emails and scans the internet. "I just read a news piece that 1 in 5 Americans think Obama is a Muslim," Bassam says. "Isn't that crazy?" State court nullifies police powers at religious collegesCNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears filed this report from Washington: A state-commissioned police officer arrests a motorist for reckless driving. Does the cop's employer matter when it comes to upholding the misdemeanor conviction? A North Carolina court says yes. The state's Court of Appeals has tossed out the guilty plea of Julie Yencer because the arresting officer works for Davidson College, which is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The three-judge panel found that giving campus police power to enforce state laws created "excessive entanglement" with the Constitution's First Amendment ban on government endorsement of religion, or the Establishment Clause. U.S. Muslim group denounces 'historic injustice of the Holocaust'CNN's Joe Sterling filed this report: Eight prominent U.S. Muslim leaders paid a visit to Nazi concentration camps in Europe and have issued a strong statement denouncing anti-Semitism, discrimination against Muslims and other forms of hatred. The group visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex in Poland and Dachau in Germany in early August, and met with survivors of the Holocaust, the Nazi attempt last century to exterminate world Jewry. That onslaught that led to the deaths of around 6 million Jews, and millions of others, such as Poles and Roma, were massacred by the Nazis and their supporters during World War II. Meant to build bridges between Muslims and Jews, the trip occurred during a time of raw hostility between those peoples in the Middle East and heated arguments in the United States over the plan to build an Islamic Center near the site of the World Trade Center attack. Giuliani says Islamic center should not move forwardFormer New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that if the developer of a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero was genuinely concerned with healing religious wounds, "he [would] not go forward with this project." "This project is not healing," Giuliani, the mayor of New York during the 9/11 attacks, told Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show. "This project is divisive, this project is creating tremendous pain to people who have already paid the ultimate sacrifice." Federal appeals court says highways' crosses are unconstitutional
A three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the 14 large crosses would be viewed by most passing motorists as "government's endorsement of Christianity." Amy Grant to combine tour and art fundraisers![]() Amy Grant will play for 300 people each night as part of 10 charity-event tour Amy Grant will tour 10 cities this fall, playing small concerts and hosting an art gallery charity event at each show. Entitled the "Pieces of Our Lives" tour, the shows will raise money for Compassion International, a charity that supports children who live in poverty. |
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